However, he said those who cannot be vaccinated due to health reasons will not be affected as they would be provided with a MySejahtera digital exemption.
“Sorry to say, if you are not vaccinated because you choose not to be vaccinated, then we will make life very difficult for you and continue to make life difficult for you.
“You cannot dine-in at restaurants nor go into shopping centres. We will also be releasing a national testing strategy next week. Then we will probably ask you to do regular tests that you have to pay for. The message is to get yourself vaccinated,” he said at a press conference at the 11th National Acute Myocardial Infarction Course organised by Serdang Hospital today.
Meanwhile, Khairy said individuals required to take their booster dose for umrah or meet the conditions of other countries could apply for it at the health ministry, and they could expect the shots to be given from this month.
However, he said the ministry was making efforts and discussing with the countries concerned not to practise discrimination on vaccines as, for example, the United Kingdom only allows Malaysians who have received Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines to enter the country without the need for quarantine.
“Rather than having to revaccinate Malaysians who want to go to the UK without quarantine, treat all vaccines, at least those which have been listed for emergency use under the World Health Organisation (WHO), as the same.
“Like the UK, they are considering our request, hopefully, they will agree, and the same with Saudi Arabia. In any case, we will give the booster dose but the easier and better solution is no discrimination as far as the vaccine is concerned,” he said.
Khairy also said he would be pushing to make it compulsory for certain buildings to be equipped with automated external defibrillator (AED) units.
He said that he would discuss the matter with the relevant ministries as well as state governments and local authorities as it involves amendments to building by-laws and would bring the matter up with the Cabinet soon.
Without mentioning the targeted timeline for the proposal, he said it would be initially implemented in government buildings followed by other buildings.
“It (AED) must be displayed and we need to train as many people (as possible) to be first responders because there have been so many cases where people have gotten heart attacks but could not get to the hospital on time,” he said.